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FRANCIS P. WHITEHAIR DIES; EX-NAVY UNDER SECRETARY

ATLANTA, March 21 (AP) Francis P. Whitehair, a power in Florida politics and a former Under Secretary of the Navy, died yesterday at Emory University Medical Center in Atlanta. He had recently undergone lung surgery. The hospital said he died of heart failure. He was 76 years old.

March 22, 1977

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